Second Car

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:42 am

With the okay from my moms I've decided I want a second car. I'd like to get something I can work on and build up and keep sooby for daily driving. So far I'm pretty much set on a touring wagon, but I'm also considering some other cars. Here's the list so far:

92/93 Subaru SVX LS-L
87-89 Nissan 300ZX turbo
86.5-88 Pontiac Fiero GT
91/92 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4
88-93 Toyota Celica All-trac or GT-four
88-89 Toyota MR2 Supercharged or 90-95 MR2 Turbocharged
94-96 Volvo 850 turbo

If you've got something good or bad to say about any of them please speak. I dont really know much about the mitsu/toyota's so more info would be grand.

EDIT: forgot the volvo

import_freak · Post by **import_freak** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:13 am

I'd say dont go with a fiero. Those things are pains in the arse to work on. I've heard they have major coolant problems, and i forget exactly what but things are so packed in there that some have been known to catch fire

. My first choice though wold be a celica alltrac, second svx, 3rd galant. That's my two cents

TheSubaruJunkie · Post by **TheSubaruJunkie** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:15 am

Good luck with the supercharged MR2, the Volvo's will run forever and those Mitsubishi Galants are beautiful.

I saw keep it in the family and get another subaru.

-Brian

kelley · Post by **kelley** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:20 am

there is a nice looking svx on ebay with 39k miles

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:28 am

Volvo 240 with a V8 transplant. A guy in NH does these all the time.

Steve

LaureltheQueen · Post by **LaureltheQueen** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:33 am

get that wagon. i want a twin.

Yukonart · Post by **Yukonart** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:34 am

Run from the Fiero. . . run very fast. . . .

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:41 am

240SX and swap your choice of JDM NISSAN motors... oh wait...

Galant VR-4.

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:45 am

I'm pretty much decided on the touring wagon, I just want to keep my options open if I can't find one when I'm ready to buy. So many people say no fiero, guess I should knock that down a few pegs

also i doubt an engine swap is doable.

Yukonart · Post by **Yukonart** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:45 am

THAWA wrote: So many people say no fiero, guess I should knock that down a few pegs

. . . or completely.

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:52 am

The engine swap into a 240 is stupidly easy. Literally, pull the old engine/tranny and drop the new ones in. Pretty cheap, and pretty easy.

kelley · Post by **kelley** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:54 am

miata's are fun with some descent power. or how about a mrs spyder. I have seen them around 8-10 (that may be too much)
but an mrs spyder with a 3sgte
or even better yet with a complete sti transplant (ej257, 6 spd driveline, sure track diffs. oh sorrie. that is my dream

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:00 am

I looked at (and test drove) a Turbo Miata. 180whp, let me tell you that thing was a rocket. Way to small for my tastes though.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:00 am

People have put all kinds of crazy engines in Fieros. I also read that every year ~30 men are sent to the emergency room by getting their 'equipment' mangled in vacuum cleaners.

You can always rebody the Fiero to look like a very unconvincing full-sized micromachine proportion exotic car.

Steve

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:04 am

evolutionmovement wrote:People have put all kinds of crazy engines in Fieros. I also read that every year ~30 men are sent to the emergency room by getting their 'equipment' mangled in vacuum cleaners.

You can always rebody the Fiero to look like a very unconvincing full-sized micromachine proportion exotic car.

Steve

You mean like this

I'd never do that. but I do like how people drop northstars in em and shit.

LaureltheQueen · Post by **LaureltheQueen** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:05 am

i've heard of the bonneville ssei supercharged v-6 dropping in there, that engine's a beast too, a friend's mom had one... wow!

every year in the us, approximately 5,000 people seriously injure themselves trying out new sexual positions

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:07 am

also I'd never buy a miata!

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:09 am

LaureltheQueen wrote:every year in the us, approximately 5,000 people seriously injure themselves trying out new sexual positions

Really? Damn.

LaureltheQueen · Post by **LaureltheQueen** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:09 am

thank you!!!! another person who agrees with me

Yukonart · Post by **Yukonart** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:11 am

More like this.

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:13 am

and about the engine swap, it's not the amount of work that's the problem, it's the lack of space.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:15 am

I always wondered how really fat people had sex. Now I know they hurt themselves just as my calculations predicted - thanks Laurel!

Steve

THAWA · Post by **THAWA** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:26 am

which one's the fiero?

azn2nr · Post by **azn2nr** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:29 am

it may suprise you but stock feiro gt will hold a v8 and quite well to with nothing too major in the mods lists. its just your descion of which engin eg. ls1 northstar or carb. it weigs nothing goes hella fast and yes with a little time and 15 grand countash or diablo kits are available

BAC5.2 · Post by **BAC5.2** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:29 am

evolutionmovement wrote:I always wondered how really fat people had sex. Now I know they hurt themselves just as my calculations predicted - thanks Laurel!

Steve

HOLY CRAP! I have always wondered too.

I mean, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about really fat people (not your average overweight individual, but more the "can hardly stand up" people) having sex, but it was brought to my attention the other day.

Even now, it kind of freaks me out. I don't quite get how it would work in some of the more conventional positions without being extremely uncomfortable.

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